Joaquín Araujo Ponciano, one of the main drivers of the environmental movement in Spain, will host a conference in Jumilla under the title "Why should we preserve the environment?".
This is an activity organized by the Department of Culture and will take place on Wednesday 27 May from 20:30 am in the classroom culture of CAM.
Joaquín Araujo is the author of 340 scripts of documentaries, presented 198 and having directed 97 of them, 75 individual and 31 collective books and more than 2,000 items, has been involved in drafting the address and 8 encyclopedias, has conducted more than 3,000 programs radio, and has managed the station six shows and delivered over 2,000 lectures.
Araujo, who personally cultivates his own land and has planted about 20,000 trees throughout his life, is also a member of 35 environmental NGOs, cultural and solidarity.
Obtained, among others, the Global 500 Award of the UN (1991) and National Environment (1997), and recently, the BBVA Foundation Award for Knowledge Dissemination in Biodiversity Conservation, endowed with 80,000 euros.
Holds an Academy Award for TV, for the best series in the history of TVE for "Man and Earth", which culminated as a writer and consultant to the realization, the last eight chapters and better book Award edited in 1999 for his "Sonata del Bosque."
The speaker is popularizer of philosophical, ecological, literary, biological and agronomic books, conferences, courses, master's, encyclopedias, internet, cds, presentations, press, radio and television.
Counsel for the areas of environment from several governments, councils, foundations and institutions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla